Nothing that is mainstream cool. Nothing says uncool like a dead brand, or a model that has been significantly changed or gone extinct. Mercury Mariner and Milan, Chevrolet Trailblazer if you can tolerate terrible MPG, end of the run Oldsmobiles if you can still find them.

Dodge really missed a key component.

I was reading reactions on Instagram and people are like, “hurr, durr, not V8, so much sux, lolz it gunna fail.” Look, I love a V8 like any enthusiast but the times are changing. These were the same people whining when the Charger came out as a four door. Hell, I remember when the Charger was FWD in the 80's. I think…

right but this:

Reminds me of the electric restomod Challenger in the movie “In Time” (the movie where they find a cure for aging, so they make your lifespan currency and the rich, who are effectively immortal, all drive around in electric muscle cars).

I have never waited so patiently for something to be revealed over my entire life—a solid year for the Dodge muscle car EV to be unveiled and now here we are.

Oh look, the MBA’s don’t know how to actually run a manufacturing company, just pinch pennies in all the wrong places.  

The Colgan pilots were making minimum wage. Fast forward to today... and $30k is still only the nationally-proposed $15 minimum wage adjusted for hourly.

And most professions don't involve getting passengers to their destination safely.  One mistake, people die.  That's why the training is so expensive.  Do you want your doctor making minimum wage "to pay his dues?"

The median pay of a commercial pilot in 2021 was $134,000. Cry me a river.

I think EVERY industry has been short sighted and stupid. I graduated in 91 and walked into a sharp recession. Companies would interview me and decide to hire someone that had 10 years of experience for less than what I needed to pay for college debt. Then when I did get a job, when things slowed down, there was…

Young people who research the pilot profession discover a lot of downsides most people don’t realize. I make good money as I approach retirement at one of the biggest airlines, still love flying and travelling. I’ve done well, better than most pilots. But I don’t recommend the profession to kids, including my sons.

A perfect storm has hit the availability of pilots. First, as mentioned, demographics plays a role. But, I believe, it is not the number one factor.

It’s not just the last 10 months. I read stories about pilot shortages 5 years ago.

I’m in that industry to. Very rare Gen Xer. It’s really bad for Gen Xers in Nuclear because the industry shut down in the late 70s/early 80s and they stopped building plants for basically 20+ years. So not only do you have a small generation with Gen X, but few of them went into the industry. Then the few that got…

This is super interesting and it’s also a problem in the nuclear/radioactive materials industry. The nuclear workforce of boomers was huge and then shrunk enormously, so now that all of the boomers are retiring/dying, there are very few Xers to fill those spots. I’ve had several raised eyebrows over how young some of…

Senior pilots got run off by the airlines because they made too much. Then the majors subbed out their regional routes to smaller carriers like Allegiant Air to take advantage of lower-earning non-union pilots.

“You will be able to work these days or else! But get no compensation if we don’t need you.”

Every time I read something like this I have to ask myself where everyone went. I get restaurant workers bailing on the industry once they got a taste of the outside world, but did pilots do the same thing? Maybe they all retired after the stock market went crazy for a couple of years? Or are the airlines just…

This is an article that has been written many, many times in the last 45 years of my life.  Not saying it’s wrong or bad, but the golden days of air travel lasted about 10 years and it’s been getting worse since....